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ELIAS BASGOlW, OF YORK, N. YY.

` Letters Patent No. 86,630, dated Fatima/fyi), 1869.`

MPRQ''EMENT IN' DEVICE FOR OIPENING AND CLOSING- W'INDOW-BLINDS The Schedule refrred to in these Letters Patent and making of the same.

To all whom it ma/y concern." v

4frame and shutter closed, with the devices for opening and closing the shutter.

Figure 2, an outside view of the same.

Figure 3, a top View of the same.

Figure 4 shows the shape of the arm or T that is attached, either to the top or bottom front corner of the shutter, as a leverage for the cords, to open and close the shutter.

The nature of my invention consists in the shapey and construction -of the T- shaped lever made of metal, and permanently fastened at the upper 'or lower outer corner of a blind or shutter, projecting' from three to twelve inches, at right angles with the face of the shutter, and slightly curving from the shutter to the extremity of eacharm, the leg or centre-piece'being flat, and fastened firmly to and iiush with; the edge ofthe shutter. Y

Cords are attached to each end of thearms to open, close, Ifasten, and hold the shutter at any angle.

The object f my invention is to open, close, fasten, and hold the shutter at any angle, by means of the cords, operated on the inside of the window, in-doors, Without raising the sash.

A represents the window-frame.

B, the wall ofthe house.

(l, the blind or shutter.

D, the metallic T- shaped device, permanently fastened .on the upper or lower corner of the shutter, having an ofset, E, to project beyond the shutter, and

arms, G G, extending to each side, to the ends of which cords or wires H are attached,leading through apertures J J, (to the inside,) that are constructed with or without pulleys, in the da-me ofthe window or wall of the house, with buttons o1' tassels on the inside, attached tothe cords, by means of which the shutter lis opened, closed, or fastened back, or held securely at any angle, according to the distance thateither cord' is drawn in to the inside.

The arms G Gand cords H H'operate in the apertures J J.

The knob K'is intended to secure the cords H. l What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-'-l The T- shaped device D, E, and Gr, when constructed and attached to a shutter, and operated by the cords or wires H, as hereinr described, and for the purposes set forth. ELIAS BASOOM. Witnesses E. D. MAYHEW, J. FRANKLIN REGART. 

